This is dumb as hell.Mythic guilds that lock out will have to reclear heroic in full every single week to get the extra 1% dmg/healing for the rest of the season.
What a stupid, silly concept to add to the game. You would have thought there was gear in the game to collect that improves your character to become more powerful and do more damage/healing, and not a silly buff. Those that do the raid anyway will collect these without thinking, but I don't see this going down well as it will create a divide of those that have the buff and those that don't, which could prevent those that don't have it getting into groups. Personally I feel it should be removed and is instead given to players that have cleared the raid once on one character, no matter the difficulty. The War Within has awful class balance, many people aren't happy with how their class is performing, so looking at the damage meters will make those bottom classes feel worse when some are just doing flat out 3% more damage/healing. This just becomes another boring chore that people will feel forced to do. Did someone at Blizzard actually think this would be a fun thing to add to the game? I'd much rather see something like this added to the Delves System, chests at the end and throught the Delves could have items to give Brann to do weekly research that later turns to 3% damage buff in all Delves.Edit: Just wanted to add that I'm glad this silly idea is at least Warband Wide.
+1 week engagement metrics ! yaaay bLizzard
This is dumb, and forces players to never miss a raid. Unless there is a catch-up mechanic I didn’t see. Why can’t this just be automatic?
Has there been any indication if this week to week buff will impact/invalidate logs, kill credit, achievements, mythic standings?
Can you get this from LFR Boss kills? Or just Normal and upwards?Plus, if you kill all bosses on Normal, this week and next week... will the buff ONLY count for normal, or if you then go into Heroic, you'll have the 3% also?
so guilds that are extending their mythic lockout to progress on the later bosses are now FORCED to do normal or heroic in order to gain the ongoing buffs? Are blizzard okay?
do these drop off each boss or is it random?>